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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: Chamillitary Click on July 16, 2009, 11:18:34 PM

Title: Ryan Howard fastest player to 200 career HRs.
Post by: Chamillitary Click on July 16, 2009, 11:18:34 PM

quite an accomplishment, we just have to hope he's clean.

shame he is already 30, he might have had a chance at some records; fuckin' Jim Thome. :P

Title: Re: Ryan Howard fastest player to 200 career HRs.
Post by: Twentytwofifty on July 17, 2009, 05:40:36 AM

Gonna hit an ungodly 800 SOs soon too.  :-X

Title: Re: Ryan Howard fastest player to 200 career HRs.
Post by: Chamillitary Click on July 17, 2009, 10:51:17 AM

^that's something i can live with as a coach, even though it's tough.

you can't say he hurts the team too much because they won the WS last year. :P

Title: Re: Ryan Howard fastest player to 200 career HRs.
Post by: Twentytwofifty on July 17, 2009, 11:07:55 AM

I wonder what the breaking point is with these strike out guys nowadays.  Would he still be playing if he only hit 30 HRs a year and struck out 200 times?  It seems to be more acceptable to put up ridiculous strike out numbers nowadays.

The old record for strike outs in a season was 189 by Bobby Bonds in 1970 and since 2004 that's been topped 6 times and there will be a few more this year.  Reynolds, Howard, Dunn, Pena and Davis all have over 100 Ks so far and Upton has 99 in 81 games.

Title: Re: Ryan Howard fastest player to 200 career HRs.
Post by: Chamillitary Click on July 17, 2009, 12:40:21 PM

well Howard & Pena are the guys who hit the long ball, that's almost their job on the team.

but i would think if Howard wanted to bat .290 & strike out a lot less, i'm sure he could; but he just puts everything he's got into every swing.

but if he swung with 2 strikes as a defensive hitter, he would only hit around 30 HR's a season.

so i am sure Phillies coaching is telling him, don't worry about striking out; just make sure you hit 45 HR's for us lol.

Title: Re: Ryan Howard fastest player to 200 career HRs.
Post by: thisoneguy360 on July 17, 2009, 12:48:37 PM

Wait, what does Jim Thome have to do with this?

Title: Re: Ryan Howard fastest player to 200 career HRs.
Post by: Chamillitary Click on July 17, 2009, 01:44:49 PM

Quote from: 360 on July 17, 2009, 12:48:37 PM

Wait, what does Jim Thome have to do with this?

LOL, i just remember a few years back Ryan Howard got his first starts when Thome was injured or some shit & they said he was going to be great.

if Jim was never their then Howard might have gotten a chance to start at the age of 21 & maybe be at his 500th right now.

*it's a joke though lol, he got their in '03, i believe; someone was their before him*

Title: Re: Ryan Howard fastest player to 200 career HRs.
Post by: OG Hack Wilson on July 17, 2009, 02:49:26 PM

he's now a rich mans Adam Dunn....2005/06 was awhile ago